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Originally Posted by Buffy
That's what I said!
Here's the real issue: if you think we're totally doomed, then why worry? All you need to do is start building your own survival wagon! 
You can certainly point to the fact that costs of extraction rise exponentially, but they always do. This has been true of gold and diamonds too.
And who's to say that something that falls out of MySpace (Hypography?) might be the reason why we come up with technological solutions to these issues of scarcity?
While fossil fuels may be tapped out, maybe we figure out alternatives. Green technology is indeed the next information technology boom.
70% of the Earth is underwater, but is a "gold mine" (literally) of mineral wealth sure its more expensive than the "cheap and easy" but think of all the people we put to work by *spending more* on extraction! And the economic Multiplier Effect that results from it!
Losing rain forests? Maybe we decide it's worthwhile to start *building* them up! And think of all the jobs we'll produce in the process!
No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from, 
Buffy |
I would say we will continue to develop alternative sources of energy from oil and that we will still keep on our environmental consciousness, but that as our numbers keep growing, we will still fall behind.
I would also not say that is "doom" but that, as you say, we need to escape from all this.
And that requires a new approach. . . such as a whole new way of looking at the world and society, one that is "the wave of the future" and enables us all to focus on these problems with the intensity they need. "Doom" is only if we do not eventually do that.
